PugJesus@piefed.social to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 18 hours agoIt's Always Sunny In The Poison-Filled Cat Boxmedia.piefed.socialimagemessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up1195arrow-down15
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minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·edit-216 hours agoThe cat thing was designed to be as absurd as possible to heckle Bohr and Heisenburg. Similarly, Freeman Dyson’s Dyson sphere paper was a work of satire, to poke fun at how ridiculous the idea was. He got stuck with it anyway.
minus-squaretyranny@crazypeople.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 hours agosame with the trolley problem. it’s supposed to be so obvious, like asking someone ‘if your friend jumped off a cliff, would you?’ that it shows that it is moral to choose the lesser of two evils. it wasn’t designed to be a debate
minus-squarePugJesus@piefed.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down1·16 hours agoFunny how our opponents can give us some of our best tools.
The cat thing was designed to be as absurd as possible to heckle Bohr and Heisenburg.
Similarly, Freeman Dyson’s Dyson sphere paper was a work of satire, to poke fun at how ridiculous the idea was. He got stuck with it anyway.
same with the trolley problem. it’s supposed to be so obvious, like asking someone ‘if your friend jumped off a cliff, would you?’ that it shows that it is moral to choose the lesser of two evils. it wasn’t designed to be a debate
Funny how our opponents can give us some of our best tools.